This editorial introduces the Preclinical Reproducibility and Robustness channel on F1000Research, which has been created to encourage and facilitate open and transparent publication and discussion of confirmatory and non-confirmatory studies in biomedical research.

although ‘allāma ḥillī and shaykh anṣārī have pointed out the feature of confirmation (iḥrāz) in some of the practical principles, its refinement has been one of mīrzā-yi nā’īnī’s initiatives. he divided the practical principles into “confirming and non-confirming. the confirming principle determines the practical duty of the religiously ccountable (mukallaf) in view of reality, such as: istiṣḥ...

5 Central Questions 5 Arguments 9 1 Collective production of historical records 9 2 Learning by building structures 9

The field of “digital humanities” is about using the latest digital methodologies in order to tackle humanities disciplines and social sciences questions. The ARCHIVES project belongs to this new research area. It proposes a methodology to build agent-based models of historical events, in particular crisis events, in order to answer new questions about them or explore them in new ways. In this ...

Why is public information revealed? We endogeneize public information by modeling aggregate information release, in games of large populations with anonymous matching, as a rational, utility-maximizing choice. We assume that there is a “planner”, who knows and selectively reveals aggregate information, in order to maximize his objective function. we show that public information can affect indiv...